EP2006625B1 - Hearth carriage connection structure for rotary furnace hearth - Google Patents

Hearth carriage connection structure for rotary furnace hearth Download PDF

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EP2006625B1
EP2006625B1 EP06798273A EP06798273A EP2006625B1 EP 2006625 B1 EP2006625 B1 EP 2006625B1 EP 06798273 A EP06798273 A EP 06798273A EP 06798273 A EP06798273 A EP 06798273A EP 2006625 B1 EP2006625 B1 EP 2006625B1
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Shinji Shima
Toshitaka Nakayama
Tomoaki Shibata
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
    • F27B—FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS IN GENERAL; OPEN SINTERING OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • F27B9/00—Furnaces through which the charge is moved mechanically, e.g. of tunnel type; Similar furnaces in which the charge moves by gravity
    • F27B9/14—Furnaces through which the charge is moved mechanically, e.g. of tunnel type; Similar furnaces in which the charge moves by gravity characterised by the path of the charge during treatment; characterised by the means by which the charge is moved during treatment
    • F27B9/16—Furnaces through which the charge is moved mechanically, e.g. of tunnel type; Similar furnaces in which the charge moves by gravity characterised by the path of the charge during treatment; characterised by the means by which the charge is moved during treatment the charge moving in a circular or arcuate path
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
    • F27B—FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS IN GENERAL; OPEN SINTERING OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • F27B9/00—Furnaces through which the charge is moved mechanically, e.g. of tunnel type; Similar furnaces in which the charge moves by gravity
    • F27B9/30—Details, accessories, or equipment peculiar to furnaces of these types
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
    • F27D—DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS, IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KIND OF FURNACE
    • F27D3/00—Charging; Discharging; Manipulation of charge
    • F27D3/12—Travelling or movable supports or containers for the charge
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F27—FURNACES; KILNS; OVENS; RETORTS
    • F27D—DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS, IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KIND OF FURNACE
    • F27D3/00—Charging; Discharging; Manipulation of charge
    • F27D3/12—Travelling or movable supports or containers for the charge
    • F27D3/123—Furnace cars

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  • the present invention relates to a hearth carriage coupling structure of a rotary furnace hearth used when heating and reducing iron oxide briquettes comprised of iron ore, iron-making waste, or other iron oxide and a carbonaceous material or other reducing agent to produce direct reduced iron briquettes etc.
  • a rotary furnace hearth has a rotary hearth comprised of a hearth carriage having a propulsion system and on which hearth refractories are placed. The raw material is carried on the top surface of the hearth refractories and heated from above for sintering and reduction.
  • This rotary hearth is constructed from a plurality of hearth carriages coupled in a ring from the viewpoint of fabrication and transport.
  • a welded structure 50 welding members 14a and 14b of adjoining hearth carriages shown in FIG. 10 or a multi-stage bolted structure 52 using two rows of bolts 53 above and below shown in FIG. 11(a) has generally been used to make the hearth as a whole an integral structure.
  • the hearth carriages of this rotary furnace hearth receive heat from the inside of the high temperature furnace resulting in the temperature of the top surfaces becoming higher than the temperature of the bottom surfaces.
  • the hearth carriages 10 an integral structure, as shown in FIG. 12(a) , there was the problem that the difference in heat expansion caused the inner circumference side wheels 32 of the hearth carriages 10 to rise and excessive weight to concentrate at the outer circumference side wheels 33 and obstruct propulsion.
  • the rise of the inner circumference side wheels 32 caused interference between the hearth refractories and the wall refractories.
  • the conventionally employed multi-stage bolt coupling structure 52 shown in FIG. 11 (a) gives freedom to the coupling between hearth carriages by gradually loosening the nuts 54 in accordance with the heat deformation of the hearth carriages 10 and thereby enables heat deformation to be absorbed as shown in FIG. 11(b) .
  • the bolts and nuts loosen and therefore rattling unavoidably occurs between the hearth carriages 10. Therefore, there was the defect that while cold, the hearth cannot be kept circular and rotation is obstructed. There was the problem that to prevent this, it is necessary to adjust the amount of tightening of the bolts and nuts with each temperature change such as heating or cooling due to operation.
  • the present invention provides a hearth carriage structure enabling hearth carriages to freely move and coupling means for the same, that is, provides a hearth carriage coupling structure enabling the wheels to completely contact the rails even after the hearth deforms due to heat and thereby avoiding carriage breakage or accidents due to excessive load and not requiring adjustment of the amount of tightening of the bolts with each temperature change such as heating or cooling due to operation.
  • the hearth carriage coupling structure of a rotary furnace hearth is characterized in that a hearth carriage carrying a hearth comprises a plurality of hearth carriages respectively having propulsion systems and in that adjoining hearth carriages are coupled by coupling bolts and nuts via spacers interspaced in a single row in a horizontal plane.
  • the length of the spacers ⁇ is made a length derived by the following formula: ⁇ ⁇ 0.5 ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ T ⁇ W ⁇ 1 / L
  • wheels for movement of the hearth carriages are provided at the bottom of the hearth carriages and two are arranged at an outer circumference furnace wall side of each hearth carriage and one is arranged at an inner circumference furnace wall side or vice versa.
  • hearth carriage coupling structure preferably a hearth refractory bed and the hearth carriages are separately provided and are coupled displaceably with each other.
  • the coupling bolts coupling the hearth carriages are arranged interspaced in a single row in a horizontal plane, even if the hearth carriages deform due to heat at the time of operation, they are structured to be able to freely deform without mutual constraint in the event of curved deformation, so the hearth carriages are maintained in individually stable states at all times. Further, since the coupling bolts couple the adjoining hearth carriages via spacers, clearance between the carriages is maintained by the spacers so that the adjoining carriages do not contact each other due to heat deformation at the time of operation. Furthermore, this clearance functions to minimize the change in distance of the couplings when the angle between the carriages changes. By adopting this structure, the coupling bolts can be kept to a bending stress and tensile stress within the allowable stress of the bolt matrix material.
  • each hearth carriage has wheels for movement at their bottoms and each hearth carriage has two arranged at an outer circumference furnace wall side and one at an inner circumference furnace wall side or vice versa, even if the carriage frames deform due to heat along with operation, all of the wheels will contact the rails reliably at all times and the load applied to the rails and wheels can be kept constant, so the rails and wheels can be extended in lifetime.
  • the hearth refractory bed and hearth carriages are separately provided and are coupled displaceably with respect to each other, even if the carriage frames of the hearth carriages deform by heat along with operation, the refractory bed is not deformed or effected by external force etc. Therefore, even if the carriage frames of the hearth carriages deform by heat, the hearth refractories will not be broken.
  • FIGS. 1 to 4 show an embodiment of the present invention.
  • a hearth 5 of a rotary furnace hearth 1 is comprised of a plurality of hearth carriages 10a to 10n coupled into a ring shape by a coupling systems 20.
  • the hearth 5 is built from a refractory bed 6 and hearth material 7.
  • the refractory bed 6 is arranged on the carriage top plates 8.
  • Each hearth carriage 10 is mainly comprised of a carriage frame 12, a propulsion system 30, and carriage top plate support hardware 40.
  • a plurality of the coupling systems 20 are arranged.
  • the coupling systems are used to couple the adjoining hearth carriages 10 with each other.
  • the plurality of the coupling systems 20 arranged between the carriages are aligned and arranged in a single row on the same horizontal plane and are not arranged in two rows in the vertical direction as in the example shown in FIG. 11 .
  • FIG. 1 an example of arrangement of three coupling systems is shown.
  • Each coupling system 20, as shown in FIG. 3 is comprised of a short tube-shaped spacer 21, a coupling bolt 24, and nuts 25 and 26.
  • the spacer 21 is arranged in a space ⁇ between webs 15a and 15b of a rear end vertical member 14ar of a front side carriage frame 12a and a front end vertical member 14bf of a rear side carriage frame 12b, while the coupling bolt 24 is arranged passing through the bolt holes 29 provided in the webs and an axial bore 22 of the spacer 21 and fastened by the nuts 25 and 26 to couple the hearth carriages 10a and 10b.
  • the webs 15a and 15b are held vertical and parallel to each other and the front faces of the two ends of the spacer 21 contact the surfaces of the webs 15a and 15b.
  • the space ⁇ between the webs 15a and 15b, that is, the length of the spacer 21 is set based on past operations or calculation of the amount of heat deformation explained later to a size whereby the adjoining hearth carriages 10 will not contact each other due to heat deformation at the time of operation.
  • the spacer 21 is not limited to one of a short tube shape such as shown in FIG. 3 and may also be a ring-shaped disk. Further, as the material of the spacer 21, one having a strength able to withstand the compressive stress applied to the spacer 21 at the time of heat deformation of the carriages accompanying operation and a heat resistance temperature of 200 to 250°C or more is sufficient. One made of general steel can sufficiently withstand use.
  • washers 28 are arranged between the webs 15a and 15b and the head of the bolt and nuts.
  • the example of using two nuts was shown, but the present invention is not limited to this.
  • the spacer 21 sandwiched between the hearth carriages maintains the clearance of the hearth carriages so that the adjoining carriages do not contact each other due to heat deformation at the time of operation.
  • This clearance has the action of keeping the change in distance of the coupling to a minimum when heat deformation of the hearth carriages causes a change in the angle ⁇ between the two facing surfaces of the rear end vertical member 14ar and front end vertical member 14bf.
  • the length ⁇ required in the theory of the spacer 21 for preventing the tops of the adjoining carriage ends from contacting each other becomes: ⁇ ⁇ l ⁇ tan ⁇ where "1" is the distance from the top surface of a carriage to a mounting hole of the spacer (coupling bolt).
  • the upper limit may be made 50 mm from the viewpoint of prevention of dropping of refractories etc. carried between two carriages.
  • the propulsion system 30, as shown in FIG. 2 attaches wheels 32 at the inner circumference furnace wall 2 side and wheels 33 at the outer circumference furnace wall 3 side at the bottoms of the respective carriage frames 12.
  • wheels 32 and 33 On a foundation 36 below the carriage frames 12, rails 34 over which the wheels 32 and 33 roll are laid in rings around the furnace center.
  • the hearth carriages are required to smoothly roll over the rails, but as shown in FIG. 6 (a) , when wheels 38 are attached to the foundation 36 via bearing stands 37 and the rails 39 are provided at the bottoms of the hearth carriages 10, the clearance between the carriages, which will expand upon heat deformation, will end up causing discontinuities in the contact of the wheels 38 and rails 39. This shows that impact will occur due to the constant step difference between the wheels 38 and rails 39. Over the long term, these will lead to fatigue breakage. To avoid this, in the present invention, as shown in FIG. 6(b) , the wheels 32 and 33 are provided at the bottoms of the hearth carriages 10.
  • each hearth carriage 10 as shown in FIG. 7 , two of the wheels 32 or 33 are arranged at the outer circumference furnace wall side and one at the inner circumference furnace wall side or vice versa.
  • the wheels 32 and 33 By arranging the wheels 32 and 33 in this way, all of the wheels reliably contact the rails 34 at all times.
  • the hearth carriages 10 are stably supported by the wheels 32, 33 and are propelled smoothly, so the hearth carriages 10, wheels 32 and 33, and rails 34 will not break due to fatigue.
  • FIG. 9 shows another example of the carriage top plate support hardware.
  • the carriage top plate support hardware 42 is comprised of a short cylindrical column or angular column and is attached vertically to the top surface of the hearth carriage 10.
  • a plurality of the carriage top plate support hardware 42 is arranged along the longitudinal direction of the hearth carriage 10 across the entire length of the carriage.
  • the height is 10 to 125 mm, and the diameter (angular) is 50 to 100 mm or so.
  • the carriage top plates 8 are carried on the top surfaces 43 of the carriage top plate support hardware 42.
  • the carriage top plates 8 and the carriage top plate support hardware 42 are able to displace with respect to each other.
  • the configurations of the holding bolts 45 and the actions of the carriage top plate support hardware 42 are the same as those shown in FIG. 8 .

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